World Armed Forces Pictures Thread

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Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron early on 26 February 2008 Soldiers break in buildings as they carry out raids on associations and organizations they said were working for the Islamist Hamas movement. The army closed institutions and confiscated computer equipment and documents.in an operation to reduce the financial ability of the Hamas movement.

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LIMBE, Cameroon (Feb. 25, 2008) Africa Partnership Station (APS) instructors, right, teach martial arts techniques to Cameroon marines. APS is a multi-national effort to bring the latest training and techniques to maritime professionals in nine West and Central African countries and to address the common threats of illegal fishing, smuggling and human trafficking. In addition to maritime training, APS will perform more than 20 humanitarian projects in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian A. Goyak (Released)

SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 24, 2008) The Republic of Philippines Tatlong Bayany-class corvette BRP Armenio Ricarte (PS 37) steams in the South China Sea during the annual bilateral exercise Balikatan 2008. During the Balikatan 2008 humanitarian assistance and training activities, military service members from the United States and the government of the Republic of the Philippines are working together to improve maritime security and ensure humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts are efficient and effective. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ty Swartz (Released)

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PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 22, 2008) The Japanese destroyer Yugiri (JS 174) steams along with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz recently participated in exercises with several Japanese Maritime Self Defense (JMSDF) ships. Nimitz is operating in the western Pacific and Indian oceans as part of the U.S. 7th Fleet. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jake Berenguer (Released)

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Bosnian Serb protesters clashed with the police after a large rally against Kosovo's independence, in the western Bosnian town of Banja Luka. The group, mostly students, threw stones at the police officers, who used tear gas to prevent them from getting near the United States Consulate, closed since last week.
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Rescue workers carried a victim away from a building that had collapsed after an explosion involving a compressed-gas canister in downtown Rio de Janeiro. The explosion injured nine people.
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A police officer drags fellow officer, wounded in the line of duty, rides with a fellow officer in La Vega, Colombia, on Tuesday on a trip to Bogota to demand the release of hundreds of hostages kidnapped on the line of duty.

Twenty police officers who lost limbs fighting leftist rebels departed on their wheelchairs last week on a 250-kilometer trek from Medellin to the capital city of Bogota.

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Russian Interior Ministry soldier adjusts a presidential Russian flag in Goragorsk, Chechnya, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, several days before the presidential election on Sunday. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

In this photo provided by the Department of Defense, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates performs a pass in review on Indian service members in New Delhi, India, Feb. 27, 2008. Gates met with the Indian Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs during his trip to the region. (AP Photo/Defense Dept, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison

In this photo provided by the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates helps place a wreath with the Indian honor guard to the India Gate Memorial in New Delhi, India, Wenesday, Feb. 27, 2008. Secretary Gates met with the Indian prime minister and foreign minister during his trip to the region. (AP Photo/Defense Dept., U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison)

In this photo released by Colombia's National Police, rebel leader Hely Mejia Mendoza, known as "Martin Sombra," center, stands at police headquarters after being captured, in Bogota, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Mejia joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, more than 35 years ago. (AP Photo/Colombian National Police)

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Kenyans cheered and danced as they witnessed the opposition leader Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki signing a power-sharing agreement in Nairobi. The police used tear gas and batons to clear the group from the area shortly after the ceremony ended.
Photo: Benedicte Kurzen for The New York Times

A Ghanaian member of the United Nations Peace keeping forces in southern Lebanon smiles during the presentation of UN Peace medals, at their base on February 28, 2008, in the southern Lebanese town of Kawzah. The Ghanaian UN troops make up part of the UNIFIL peace keeping forces deployed along the southern Lebanese border with Israel. There are some 13000 troops from different countries including France, Italy Malaysia, India and others. AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/***** Images)

Britain's Prince Harry patrols through the deserted town of Garmisir, Afghanistan, close to Forward Operating Base Delhi, on Wednesday Jan. 2, 2008.

A Sri Lankan soldier patrols in an area close to an explosion site in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. A suicide bomber ignited a blast Friday when police knocked on a house door during a sweep targeting Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka's capital and the explosion wounded seven people, including three police officers, the military said. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Singapore Armed Forces military policemen are seen keeping watch under a major highway close to a wooded area on Friday Feb. 29, 2008 in Singapore. Interpol said Friday it has issued a worldwide security alert following the escape of an alleged Islamic terror leader from a jail in Singapore.The international police organization said it put out an "Orange Notice" on Mas Selamat Kastari, a suspected commander of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah's Singapore arm.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Anti-riot police use their batons to move demonstrators away from the entrance of a school in San Juan, Thursday.

Police clashed with public schools teachers who remained on strike since Feb. 20, demanding higher salaries and improvements to school buildings, while the Puerto Rico's Police department dispatched its anti-riot unit to keep schools open.

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Russian First Deputy Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Dmitry Medvedev, left, looks at a line up of people dressed in period police uniforms a meeting with top Interior Ministry officials in Moscow, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Pool

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Tanks on the Israeli side of the Gaza border were at rest on a day of considerably less violence and death in the conflict between Israel and Hamas than in the previous two days, when more than 30 Palestinians and an Israeli were killed.
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Tens of thousands of Gazans protested Israel's repeated raids, which were intended to halt persistent Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. Protests were also staged in Bilin, a West Bank town near Ramallah, where this demonstrator was kicked in a confrontation with Israeli soldiers.
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A soldier in the Iraqi Army lighted brush on fire to deprive insurgents of cover in a village in Arab Jabour. The area is the focus of a joint Iraqi and American military operation in a number of rural villages in Diyala Province.
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Britain 's Prince Harry takes his gear off after arriving at RAF Brize Norton in Oxforshire after a 10-week tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad take their positions in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip during an incursion by Israeli troops on March 1, 2008. Israel pressed its assault against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with a surge of strikes today, killing at least 32 Palestinians including four children, medical officials said. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/***** Images)

Hamas militants take their positions in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip during an incursion by Israeli troops on March 1, 2008. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/***** Images)

An Israeli army artillery battery fires a ranging shot into the Gaza Strip from a forward base on March 01, 2008 near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.

A Sri Lankan army soldier marks around evidence at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up in a house in Colombo on February 29, 2008. A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up injuring seven people as police moved in to search his house. According to the defence ministry, 1,676 rebels have been killed so far this year

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OMON, riot police officers detain opposition activists while dispersing an unsanctioned protest over Russia's presidential election, Moscow, Monday, March 3, 2008. Police detained dozens of people at a planned opposition protest Monday over Russia's presidential election, in a strong show of force the day after an election that was dismissed by Kasparov and other liberal opposition leaders as a farce. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Venezuelan soldiers guard a military helicopter that carried an unidentified military officer into the area and landed at a baseball field in the village of el Mojan, some 80 km. (49 miles) from the border with Colombia Monday, March 3, 2008. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he was ordering tanks and thousands of troops sent to Venezuela's border with Colombia, accusing his neighbor of pushing South America to the brink of war after Colombian troops killed early Saturday a top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in a raid at a rebel camp just inside Ecuadorean territory. (AP Photo/Reinaldo D'Santiago)

Ecuadorean soldiers run to board a helicopter in Lago Agrio, northeast Ecuador, Monday, March 3, 2008, that will take troops to Angostura, near the border with Colombia. Ecuador's President Rafael Correa ordered Sunday the expulsion of Colombia's ambassador to Ecuador and mobilized troops to the border with Colombia, after Colombian security forces killed Saturday a senior commander of Colombia's largest guerrilla group just inside Ecuadorean territory. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa).

Turkish army commandos return from a combat mission against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, in Cukurca at Turkey-Iraq border in this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo. Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit threatened Monday, March 3, 2008, to send the armed forces into Iraq again to "teach further lessons" to Kurdish rebels and said a recent incursion was a success in part because of harsh winter conditions. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Armenian soldiers prepare to patrol the streets in central Yerevan, Armenia on Monday, March 3, 2008. Some hundreds of troops flooded Armenia's capital to enforce a state of emergency after clashes between opposition activists protesting election results and government forces left eight people dead and more than 100 injured. (AP Photo)

Iraqis stand at a site where a car bomb destroyed a house on Sunday in Samarra, Iraq, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 3, 2008. Iraqi police said that at least seven people were killed and 10 people were injured in the blast. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)

Military Security from the Singapore Armed Forces guard a shoreline Monday March 3, 2008 in Singapore. Authorities believe a top Muslim terror suspect has not managed to flee Singapore and have launched an investigation into how he escaped from a high-security prison, a senior government official said Sunday. More than a thousand security personnel were involved in a nationwide search for Mas Selamat Kastari, a Singaporean, who is accused of plotting to hijack a plane and crash it into the Singapore's international airport. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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Ecuadorian soldiers stand on a truck after dropping on the water an army boat, not seen, to patrol the San Miguel River river, on the border with Colombia, Tuesday.
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa ordered Sunday the expulsion of Colombia's ambassador to Ecuador and mobilized troops to the border with Colombia, after Colombian security forces killed Saturday a senior FARC commander just inside Ecuadorean territory.

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A Brazilian policeman holds a rifle seized during a raid against drug trafficking at the Mineira slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will launch on March 7 a program aimed to improve living conditions in the so-called 'favelas', or metropolitan slum areas. The government hopes that the injection of capital will weaken drug traffickers, who in some cases are the biggest employers in the 'favelas'.

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[QUOTE]Venezuelan military ride on an armored vehicle as they cross the village of Paraguaipoa, Venezuela, about 31 miles away from the border with Colombia Tuesday.

Hundreds of Venezuelan troops were deployed along the Colombian border on Tuesday following orders from President Hugo Chavez, who is sending about 9,000 soldiers to the frontier.

An ambulance and police officers are seen in front of the Japanese parliament building in Tokyo on Wednesday March 5, 2008. A man shot himself in the head Wednesday in front of Japan's parliament building, police said. A news report said he later died of his wounds. The man who appeared to be in his 60's got off a taxi in front of the south gate of the parliament building and fired the gun, according to local police official Hiromu Kawaguchi. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Ecuadorean soldiers unloaded two corpses of FARC guerrillas from a helicopter at Lago Agrio's airport in Ecuador. The guerrillas were among those killed in their jungle camp during a Colombian military strike. In response to Colombia's cross-border raid against the rebels, Ecuador has severed diplomatic ties with the country, and Venezuela has expelled all Colombian diplomats.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a naval college in Lahore, a city in eastern Pakistan, killing four people and wounding at least 14, officials said. Pakistani security officials examined the scene after the attack.
Photo: K.M. Chaudary/Associated Press

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BANI SAID, Iraqi (March 3, 2008) A soldier from the Iraqi Security Forces studies an anti-personnel rocket in a cache of munitions and many large weapons systems unearthed by Iraqi and U.S. Army Soldiers. A local supporter of reconciliation led the Soldiers to the cache in the Diyala Province of Iraq. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Sean Mulligan (Released)

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SEOUL, Republic of Korea (March 6, 2008) A Republic of Korea (ROK) solider from the 11/75th Bridge Seoul Construction Co. secures a pole between transom beams during the construction of a medium-girder bridge with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 during a bridge-building exercise during the joint exercise Key Resolve/Foal Eagle 2008. This exercise provides training to enhance interoperability, combat readiness and demonstrates the commitment to the ROK/U.S. alliance. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nancy C. diBenedetto (Released)

Martin Wyness, a protestor from the anti-whaling group 'Sea Shepherd International' talks with police officers on a balcony of Japanese Embassy in London, during a protest.

The commander of the NATO-led force in Kosovo, French General Xavier Bout de Marnhac, right, talks to soldiers as he visits a KFOR checkpoint at Brnjak, on the Serbia-Kosovo border, Thursday, March 6, 2008. NATO peacekeepers have recently reopened two border checkpoints between Serbia and northern Kosovo after being demolished by Kosovo Serbs protesting against independence of Kosovo declared on February 17. (AP Photo/Zveki)

Police officers stand guard at the main entrance of a prison in Chalatenango, northern El Salvador, early Thursday, March 6, 2008. Police found four bodies inside empty drums and one wrapped in a blanket at the prison. A motive for the killings could be "a struggle for power" within the prison, prison director Nelson Hernandez said.(AP Photo/Francisco Aleman/La Prensa Grafica)

Venezuelan National Guard soldiers inspect a pickup truck at a check point in Paraguaipoa, on the Venezuelan border with Colombia, Thursday, March 6, 2008. Venezuela is starting to block billions of dollars in Colombian imports and investment under orders from President Hugo Chavez, threatening economic havoc in both nations in response to a Colombian military attack on rebels hiding in Ecuador. (AP Photo/Howard Yanes)

Ecuadorean soldiers patrol in Puerto Nuevo, on the Ecuadorean border with Colombian on March 6, 2008. The US State Department balked Thursday at Ecuador's call for condemnation of Colombia's raid, saying an Organization of American States resolution (OAS) represented an international consensus. Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa on Wednesday urged the world community to issue a "clear condemnation" after the OAS agreed that Colombia's raid breached Ecuador's sovereignty but stopped short of formally condemning it. AFP PHOTO/Rodrigo BUENDIA (Photo credit should read RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/***** Images)

Ecuadorean soldiers patrol in Puerto Nuevo, on the Ecuadorean border with Colombian on March 6, 2008.

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A Pakistani policeman shows a suicide jacket after a press conference in Lahore on March 6, 2008. Pakistani police arrested three suspected suicide bombers in the eastern city of Lahore who were planning attacks on prominent figures. Police have recovered four suicide jackets, 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives, a number of detonators, fuses and chemicals from their possession. AFP PHOTO/Arif ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

Police officers escort an arrested suspected rebel at the police headquarters in Lago Agrio, in northern Ecuador, near the border with Colombia, Friday, March 7, 2008. Five alleged members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, were arrested in the area where Colombian security forces killed the a senior guerrilla commander. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Honduran soldiers take suspects into custody during the security operation code named "Hunter", in the vicinity of the Tocontin international airport in Tegucigalpa on March 7, 2008. The Hunter joint army and police operation aims to fight drug trafficking, gang violence and common delinquency. AFP PHOTO/Orlando SIERRA. (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli border police secure the funeral of 15- year-old Israeli student Segev Peniel Avihail at the Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery overlooking the Al-Aqsa mosque compound known by the Jews as Temple Mount, on March 7, 2008. Avihail was killed together with seven other yeshiva students after a Palestinian gunman opened fire inside the Jewish religious school in Jerusalem last night. AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli anti-terrorism units take position at the scene of a shooting attack which left eight Jewish students dead at a religious school in Jerusalem on March 6, 2008.

Algerian new graduated policewomen parade during a graduation ceremony held on March 06, 2008 at the police Academy in Ain Benian in Algiers. The graduation ceremony came on the eve of the International Woman Day ceremonies. AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images)

A Venezuelan soldier stands on guard as a military helicopter lands in Paraguaipoa, on the Venezuelan border with Colombia

An Ecuadorean soldier patrols the town of Puerto Nuevo, Ecuador, on the border with Colombia, Thursday.

Ecuador sent troops to the border in response to a Colombian military strike that killed two dozen rebels, including Colombian rebel spokesman Raul Reyes, at a camp on Ecuadorian soil.

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Army soldiers control the traffic outside the Foreign Ministry building where the 20th Rio Group Summit is held in Santo Domingo, Friday, March 7, 2008. The presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador kept the pressure on Colombia as they arrived in the Dominican capital late Thursday. The Rio Group summit was to have focused on energy and other issues, but the diplomatic crisis in the Andes now has center stage. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Ecuadorean soldiers stand guard along the San Miguel river in Puerto Nuevo, on the Ecuadorean border with Colombia on March 6, 2008. The US State Department balked Thursday at Ecuador's call for condemnation of Colombia's raid, saying an Organization of American States resolution (OAS) represented an international consensus. Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa on Wednesday urged the world community to issue a "clear condemnation" after the OAS agreed that Colombia's raid breached Ecuador's sovereignty but stopped short of formally condemning it. AFP PHOTO/Rodrigo BUENDIA (Photo credit should read RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/***** Images)

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French Forces on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan. March 2008












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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 8: A German ISAF troops patrol the Marmal foothills March 8, 2008 in Mazar-e- Sharif, Afghanistan. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed the need for public support of Germany's military mission in Afghanistan. The German led Camp Marmal is the forward support base for Regional Command North, which consists of the 9 northern provinces of Afghanistan. Germany has deployed around 3,500 soldiers in northern Afghanistan and Kabul as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The Germans are also employed with the various Provincial Reconstruction teams ( PRT's ) located in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kunduz, Faisabad. The German government has also faced huge pressure by the US and Britain to dispatch troops to the front lines of southern Afghanistan where NATO forces are battling the Taliban and al-Qaeda insurgents. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 8: A German Tornado reconnaissance jet takes off from Camp Marmal on a two and a half hour mission March 8, 2008 in Mazar-e- Sharif, Afghanistan.

US and South Korean marines participate in a joint military drill at a shooting range in Pocheon, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on March 8, 2008. The exercise is part of a joint "Key Resolve" exercise between US and South Korean troops. North Korea has condemned the exercise as preparations for an attack on the communist country. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Pakistani police commandos escort an armored vehicle carrying five suspected militants accused of plotting to kill former premier Benazir Bhutto, after a hearing an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on March 10, 2008. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court presented charge sheets to five suspected militants accused of involvement in the assassination of Bhutto. The five men were all arrested in the weeks following former premier Bhutto's slaying at a political rally in Rawalpindi on December 27 and last appeared at the court in the garrison city adjoining Islamabad a week ago. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

A Thai soldier rides past a bird market during a security check in Yala province on March 10, 2008. Five people have been killed in separate shootings across Thailand's insurgency-torn Muslim south, with two of the victims' bodies set ablaze, police said March 10. AFP PHOTO/Muhammad SABRI (Photo credit should read MUHAMMAD SABRI/AFP/Getty Images)

Thai soldiers stand guard during a security check in Yala province on March 10, 2008.

Nepalese riot police arrest a Tibetan protester (C) during a clash with police at Boudha in Kathmandu on March 10 2008. Hundreds of Tibetan activists clashed with police in the Nepalese capital when protesters tried to march to the Chinese embassy. Around 3,000 Tibetans had gathered in Boudha, a Tibetan temple complex, to mark the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape to India after an abortive anti-Beijing uprising. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli President Shimon Peres (2nd L) reviews the troops next to French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (L) on March 10, 2008, upon his arrival at the Paris-Orly airport, on the first of his four-day state visit in France. Peres will open the Paris book fair, this year honouring the Jewish state, during his visit. POOL AFP PHOTO MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

A Greek police officer prevents a pro-Tibet protester, dressed in traditional Tibetan costume from participating in a flame lighting ceremony at Ancient Olympia, outside of the archeological site, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic games, on Monday, March 10, 2008. The event was held ahead of the official flame lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics on March 24, to highlight the opposition to Chinese rule of Tibet and commemorate the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

Soldiers stand guard at the site of an explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 10, 2008. A bomb planted in a flower pot alongside a major road in Colombo exploded early Monday, killing one person and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Nepalese police officers detain a Tibetan protester, left, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 10, 2008. Monday marks the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet that forced the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, into exile in 1959. Protesters marked the day with demonstrations in New Delhi, India, and Katmandu, Nepal, where 10 activists were detained after hundreds clashed with police. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

A paramilitary police unit surrounds a China Southern Airlines passenger plane during an anti-hijack drill in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province, in this Saturday, April 28, 2007 file photo. China said on Sunday March 10, 2008, a flight crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a China Southern flight from Urumqi, in the country's western Xinjiang region, on Friday. (AP Photo/EyePress)

A soldier looks at the body of a victim at the site of an explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 10, 2008. A bomb planted in a flower pot alongside a major road in Colombo exploded early Monday, killing one person and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Sri Lankan soldiers search the bags of police officers and election officials at the main entrance of the counting centre in Batticaloa March 10, 2008. Residents in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged east voted for the first time in more than a decade on Monday, but with armed former Tamil Tiger rebels seen as the likely poll winners, peace remains precarious. REUTERS/Buddhika Weerasinghe (SRI LANKA)

Right-wing Israeli activists scuffle with police during a protest in Jerusalem March 9, 2008. According to Israeli media reports, several right-wing activists were arrested by Israeli police after attempting to march towards the house of a Palestinian gunman who killed eight Jewish seminary students on Thursday.

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ASHKELON, ISRAEL - MARCH 09: Grieving relatives and friends, many in uniform, accompany the flag-draped coffin of Israeli army Staff Sergeant Liran Banai during his military funeral March 9, 2008 in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Banai died earlier in the day of wounds sustained last Thursday, on March 6, 2008, when his jeep was blown up by a Palestinian roadside bomb while patrolling Israel's border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. (Photo by David Silverman/***** Images)

A soldier explains to children about the 105mm howitzer canon during a show by Philippine Army in Marikina city suburban Manila on March 9, 2008. The Army is holding a caravan of awareness campaign showing their skills and weapons around Metro Manila to culminate during their anniversary on March 22. AFP PHOTO/Jay DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/***** Images)

A child touches one of the weapons on display at a show by Philippine Army in Marikina city suburban Manila on March 9, 2008.

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British soldiers are working with the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the Kabul Mountains to help train new recruits. Making the best use of the environment in the rigorous winter conditions at the Kabul Military Training Centre, Afghan Army recruits are being put through their paces on a ten-week training programme.

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Afghan police officers and Canadian soldiers of the International Security Force inspect the site of an explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Canadian troops Wednesday in the southern city of Kandahar, killing a passing civilian and wounding two soldiers.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Canadian soldiers of the International Security Force stand near a group of Afghan civilians who are being held for questioning near the site of an explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 12, 2008. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Canadian troops Wednesday in the southern city of Kandahar, killing a passing civilian and wounding two soldiers.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

clergyman, centre, reacts while being surrounded by demonstrators and police forces, as they push to the entrance of Denmark Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Hundreds of angry students staged a protest in front of the Danish embassy in Tehran on Wednesday to condemn the reprinting of a cartoon deemed insulting of the Prophet Muhammad in the Nordic country's newspapers. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

An Iranian boy chats with riot policemen following an anti-Danish protest in front of the embassy of Denmark in Tehran

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walks past a line of Senegalese soldiers as he arrives for the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit, at the airport in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. More than 40 heads of state will convene in Dakar on Thursday and Friday. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Snipers were posted on a mosque while Muslim separatist rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front held a gathering at Camp Bushra in Butig, a town on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. The meeting is the biggest show of strength since the liberation front began talks with the Philippine government in 2003, and it raised doubts that a peace agreement could be completed this year. The front has been waging a separatist rebellion in Mindanao that has claimed 150,000 lives since 1978.
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A Romanian special forces takes aim during a joint practice session involving Interior Ministry troops on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, March 12 2008. The exercise is part of preparations by all branches of the Romanian security services for the upcoming NATO Summit that will take place in Bucharest between April 2-4 2008. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Striking garbage collectors hurled trash at riot police during a labor protest in Athens, on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Some 5,000 protesters marched to protest an overhaul of Greece's pension funds planned by the conservative government. The country's largest labor union, the GSEE, called a three-hour work stoppage to coincide with a debate on the reforms by lawmakers at committee level. (AP Photo/Phasma, Giorgos Nikolaidis)

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Police officers frisk young soccer players coming for training at a sports arena in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, Thursday, March 13, 2008. Security remains tight in Chechnya as rebels continue to mount regular raids against federal troops and local authorities. At right in the background is a portrait of Chechnya's first pro-Moscow president, Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in 2004. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

An Afghan police officer patrols near the site after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 13, 2008. A suicide car bomber struck an armored vehicle carrying U.S. troops near the city's airport Thursday. The blast killed at least six Afghan civilians and wounded up to 20 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Pakistani police officers stand guard next to the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, as supporters of the Pakistani Islamic student group, Islami Jamait Tulaba, not seen, demonstrate against the reproduction of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers, Thursday, March 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Iraq police officers demonstrate their riot control skills during a police academy graduation ceremony in Basra, Iraq, Thursday, March 13, 2008.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Indian police detain Tibetan protestors at Dehra, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Kangra district boundary that surrounds Dharmsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Thursday, March 13, 2008. Police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles marching in northern India to Tibet in protest of China's Olympic Games early Thursday morning, organizers and officials said. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Iraqis enrolled in the first Iraqi army HMMWV training course demonstrate their skills during their graduation ceremony at the Taji National Depot Complex in the outskirts of Baghdad on March 13, 2008. Around 45 Humvees were transferred today from the US military to the Iraqi army during the graduation ceremony of the first HMMWV training course. AFP PHOTO/ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/***** Images)

A former Maoist rebel stands guard at the residence in Katmandu of Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda who is leaving on his trip to southwest Nepal Thursday, March 13, 2008. The leader of Nepal's former communist rebels said Thursday that he will accept the results of upcoming elections and that the peace process will continue, even if his party fares poorly at the polls.(AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

A Romanian special forces sniper reloads his weapon during a joint practice session involving Interior Ministry troops on the outskirts of Bucharest Romania Wednesday March 12 2008. The exercise is part of preparations by all branches of the Romanian security services for the upcoming NATO Summit that will take place in Bucharest between April 2-4 2008. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A police officer holds a weapon during a protest of doctors to demand salary raises in Santo Domingo, Wednesday, March 12, 2008.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)